[ No. 92. ] REPORTS AND PAPERS. 943 
the water. Notwithstanding my fright I yet observed the animal 
very accurately. Its length was about five to six fathoms, and the 
body, which was as round as a snake's, was about two feet in 
diameter. (Lars Johnéen measured on a table before him with his 
hands a space of about two feet). The tail too appeared to me to 
be round. The head was about as long and as thick as a brandy 
anker (a ten gallon cask), it was not pointed but bluntly round. 
The eyes were very large and glistening. Their size (or diameter) 
was about that of this box here (five inches), and they were as 
red as my neckerchief (crimson). The animal did not open its 
mouth, therefore I cannot give its size. It constantly held its 
head above the surface of the water in an acute angle; not so high, 
however, that the nose should come over the board of a boat. 
Close behind the head, a mane like a horse’s commenced , extend- 
ing rather far down the neck, and spreading on both sides; floated 
on the water; it was of tolerably long hair. The mane as well as 
the head and the rest of the body was brown as this looking glass 
frame (dark brown of old mahogany). I could not observe spots, 
or stripes of other colours, nor were there any scales; it seemed 
as if the body was quite smooth. The movements of the serpent 
were by turns fast and slow; they were also slow when the animal ap- 
proached my boat. At the moment in which I could observe it 
best, its movements were serpentine, up and down. The few un- 
dulations, made by those parts of the body and the tail that were 
out of the water, were scarcely a fathom in length. These undulations 
were not so high, that I could see between them and the water. — 
When Lars Johnoen had given this declaration, the drawing which 
Pontoppidan had given of the animal was shown to him. He 
looked at it with astonishment, smiled and said that he saw a 
great resemblance between it and the animal he had seen. He 
likewise said, that some of the other sea-serpents he had seen were 
a great deal longer than the one described above.”’ 
This unvarnished account describes very well the animal’s general 
doings, and accurately pictures its curiosity and harmlessness. 
93. — 1829, July. — We shall soon be acquainted with the 
appearance of the sea-serpent seen by Captain M’Quuar of the 
Daedalus, in Aug. 6, 1848. Prof. Ricnarp Owen, questioned 
whether this animal could be a snake or not, gave his answer in 
